Unifi Secondary Ports?
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So I've never used the secondary ports on the Unifi APs (always used the Unifi AP Pros) but I though it was a hub that. would pass through the primary vlan of the AP much like a VOIP phone's pass through. So what does it actually do? I saw a video of a guy on youtube saying you could use it for fail-over which i've never even seen a feature for in the software. Nor have a seen anyone run redundant lines to any APs (no matter the brand or size of deployment). Doesn't seem like it would be of much use. Granted even though this guy claims to have a previous IT background a lot of his stuff is just plain wrong.
I'm curious if it actually supports this. And if you have used that feature and why you used it.
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I could have sworn those were supposed to be management ports. To access the CLI if you can't get in through any other means.
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@coliver said:
I could have sworn those were supposed to be management ports. To access the CLI if you can't get in through any other means.
I know it's not a console port. It doesn't have those. But you can SSH to the cli any way it's on the network.
My guess is if you plugged in both you'd just make a routing loop
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@thecreativeone91 said:
So I've never used the secondary ports on the Unifi APs (always used the Unifi AP Pros)
Why do you use the Pro vs the non Pro?
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That video is talking about the UAP-AC, not the Pro. So the ports abilities might be different.
Though one thing he did mention that caught my ear... the AC model doesn't support seamless handoff? So I can't use these in a wireless VOIP install.... good to know.
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@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
So I've never used the secondary ports on the Unifi APs (always used the Unifi AP Pros)
Why do you use the Pro vs the non Pro?
Has 5ghz and 2.4ghz radios. and has standard 48v 802.3af POE support
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@Dashrender said:
That video is talking about the UAP-AC, not the Pro. So the ports abilities might be different.
The ports are the same across the Unifi UAP line excluding the outdoor models.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
So I've never used the secondary ports on the Unifi APs (always used the Unifi AP Pros)
Why do you use the Pro vs the non Pro?
Has 5ghz and 2.4ghz radios. and has standard 48v 802.3af POE support
Yeah standard POE support is awesome, but damn.. going from $70ish to over $300 seems very steep for these features.
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@Dashrender said:
Yeah standard POE support is awesome, but damn.. going from $70ish to over $300 seems very steep for these features.
Over $300? They are $600 for a three pack. That's still really cheap for good enterprise wifi. You can easily spend $40-70k with Cisco and Aruba systems.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
Yeah standard POE support is awesome, but damn.. going from $70ish to over $300 seems very steep for these features.
Over $300? They are $600 for a three pack. That's still really cheap for good enterprise wifi. You can easily spend $40-70k with Cisco and Aruba systems.
OK OK, I misremembered... though even at $300 they would be a song compared to Cisco/Aruba stuff.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
You can easily spend $40-70k with Cisco and Aruba systems.
Not even counting yearly fees, support fees, fee fees....
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
You can easily spend $40-70k with Cisco and Aruba systems.
Not even counting yearly fees, support fees, fee fees....
SmartNet shivers
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Saddest thing of all is I'd take all that punishment just to get working WIFI here right now. So bloody frustrating to be stuck on B/G with super saturated AP's that are LITERALLY rusting off their mounts.
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@MattSpeller said:
Saddest thing of all is I'd take all that punishment just to get working WIFI here right now. So bloody frustrating to be stuck on B/G with super saturated AP's that are LITERALLY rusting off their mounts.
What are you using?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
Saddest thing of all is I'd take all that punishment just to get working WIFI here right now. So bloody frustrating to be stuck on B/G with super saturated AP's that are LITERALLY rusting off their mounts.
What are you using?
He would rather be bent over by Cisco then deal with his current implementation is what I gathered.
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@thecreativeone91 ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl - console is not compliant with anything NEWER than IE7. To reboot the WESM you have to reboot the WHOLE switch.
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I actually have an XP VM setup just to access this damn thing.
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Sorry to derail, had to vent a bit.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl - console is not compliant with anything NEWER than IE7. To reboot the WESM you have to reboot the WHOLE switch.
I didn't even know HP was in the wireless stuff too. There swtiches are good. I guess there's a reason I've never heard of there APs.
